townsman

English

Etymology

From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnes-mann, equivalent to town +‎ -s- +‎ man.

Noun

townsman (plural townsmen)

a man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town

Related terms

townswoman

Translations

male resident of a town

Albanian: bashkëqytetar (sq) m
Breton: kêriad (br) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 市民 (zh) (shìmín)
Danish: borger (da) m
Finnish: kaupunkilainen (fi)
French: citadin (fr) m

German: Bürger (de) m, Stadtbewohner (de) m
Japanese: 市民 (ja) (しみん, shimin)
Latin: oppidānus m
Russian: горожа́нин (ru) m (gorožánin), городско́й жи́тель m (gorodskój žítelʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: мештанин m, meštanin m, мјештанин m, mještanin (sh) m
Slovene: krajan m
Swedish: stadsbo (sv) c, borgare (sv) c

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